EULLETIX 



OK THE 



BRITISH ORNITHOLOGISTS' CLUB, 



1^0, I.XII. 



The sixty-first Meeting of the Club ^as held at the 

 Restaurant Frascati, 32 Oxford Street, on Wednesday^ the 

 19:h of April, 1899. 



Chairnian : P. L. Sclatek, F.Pt.S. 



Merfibers presejit : — E. Bidavell, A. F. Ckossmax, P. 

 Crowley, W. E. De Wixton, Dr. F. D. Di^ewitt, Lt.-Col. 

 W. H. M. DuTHiE, H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., W. R. Ogilvie 

 Grant, E. Hartert, G. E. Lodge, H. C. I\Ionro, R. 

 Nesham, Heatly Noble, F. Penrose, Hon. L. W. 

 Rothschild, M.P., Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe {Editor), 

 E. Cavendish Taylor, N. F. Ticehurst, H. M. Wallis, 

 J. Wilkinson. 



Visitors : T. F. Alth.4Us, C. E. Fagan^ J. R. Hatfield, 

 R, J. C. Mostyn. 



jMr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant gave an account of his recent 

 journey to Sokotra, and exhibited a series of Sjjecimeus 

 obtained by himself and Dr. H. O. Forbes. Araoug them 

 vrere examples of the folloTving rie\v birds, full descriptions 

 of which "n-ill appear in the ■■ Bulletin ' of the Li\'erpool 

 IMuseum : — Scops socotranns, Caprimulgus jonesi, Motacilla 

 foru'oodi. Fringillaria insuJaris, F. socotrana. Passer hemi- 

 Itucus, and Phalacrocorax nigrogularis. 



I April 29?7<, 1S9U.J 



